Alma Mater as Big Brother

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A8331-2005Mar28?language=printer

Alma Mater As Big Brother

By Katherine Haley Will
Tuesday, March 29, 2005; Page A15

A proposal by the Education Department would force every
college and university in America to report all their
students' Social Security numbers and other information
about each individual -- including credits earned, degree
plan, race and ethnicity, and grants and loans received --
to a national databank. The government will record
every student, regardless of whether he or she
receives federal aid, in the databank.

The government's plan is to track students individually
and in full detail as they complete their post-secondary
education. The threat to our students' privacy is of
grave concern, and the government has not satisfactorily
explained why it wants to collect individual information.

[...]

Under the proposal that will soon be submitted to
Congress, instead of aggregate statistics, colleges
and universities would be required to feed data on
each student to the Education Department's National
Center for Education Statistics. Should an
institution refuse, the government could take away
federal grants, loans and work-study funds from
every student at the college, a penalty that would
fall on students in need while leaving more affluent
students unaffected.

[...]

The writer is president of Gettysburg College.

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